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marc
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Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 11:45 pm |
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Dave wrote: Cool...
Who's is it? You ride a bagger don't you? I have a Geezer Glide...This Road King belongs to a guy over on BH or HTT...I posted it because of the apes and it looks good...
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 08:38 pm |
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Cool...
Who's is it? You ride a bagger don't you?
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marc
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Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 08:29 pm |
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the preacher
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 05:46 pm |
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Dave:
Looks good. My 12's are also the narrow style. BUT, I am gonna have to change them back to drags on 6 inch risers, my tailbone is fractured and I gotta get my weight more forward until I get old enough for suspension...*shudder*...lol
For the rest of ya: re: "SmithField Customs"
A few years ago, Steve was up here working, we met at Smithfield BBQ in Smithfield NC for dinner. Afterwards we went to WalMart cause both of us needed something, and a guy went past us on an older swingarm frame with at LEAST 24's, maybe 30" apes. His arms were straight up. Been a running joke between me and Steve ever since. Now ya know the rest of the story.
RSDF
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Dave
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 11:20 am |
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Maybe this shot will give ya an idea of how narrow they are...
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Dave
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 11:17 am |
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You're right! The bike is much more comfortable and seems to ride a lot better.
Like I said before, I've always had low or drag bars on my bikes. Never anything like this.
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 11:08 am |
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Dave wrote: Vero Steve wrote:
I just put 24" gorilla bars on Lowrider, what a mess.......Took a fine bike and made it in to a POS................
PS....Dave the old girl is looking good........ plus I bet its easy riding for an old guy like you..........LOL
Old guy like me? WTF??? I'm younger than you! LOL...
Thanks Steve, I'm real happy with it...
I can't imagine 24-inch bars. That's a bit much.
I picked these up at J&P, they're meant for a narrow-glide (They're real narrow down at the bottom)
Nice bein' able to actually see what's behind me usin' the mirrors...LOL
LOL.... Just wanted to stir the pot a little....THe OL says I'm 52 going on 17........
After riding your bike for all those years with drag bars those bars gotta feel like it rides it rides it self.........
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 11:05 am |
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the preacher wrote: Steve: you building Smithfield Customs now? (think WalMart after dinner..lol)
RSDF
Preacher I'm just trying to make a living.....If these guys bring me something to put on there bike and they have cash, I'll put it on............PLus I got to sell him really nice braided clutch, brake lines and throttle cables that I had to special order from Barnett and I rewired all the controls inside the bars. It was a decent job and he paid cash....LOL
Smithfield Customs......LOL That Lowrider look just about the same has that bike.....
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Dave
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 10:30 am |
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Vero Steve wrote:
I just put 24" gorilla bars on Lowrider, what a mess.......Took a fine bike and made it in to a POS................
PS....Dave the old girl is looking good........ plus I bet its easy riding for an old guy like you..........LOL
Old guy like me? WTF??? I'm younger than you! LOL...
Thanks Steve, I'm real happy with it...
I can't imagine 24-inch bars. That's a bit much.
I picked these up at J&P, they're meant for a narrow-glide (They're real narrow down at the bottom)
Nice bein' able to actually see what's behind me usin' the mirrors...LOL
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the preacher
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 09:33 am |
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Steve: you building Smithfield Customs now? (think WalMart after dinner..lol)
RSDF
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Randy in Pensacola
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 12:19 am |
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the preacher wrote: 20's??? you might save on deodorant but the hospital visit to try to get circulation back into your hands will probably blow the deodorant savings...
lol
RSDF They aint that bad. I got 20's on my shovel......
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 12:11 am |
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I just put 24" gorilla bars on Lowrider, what a mess.......Took a fine bike and made it in to a POS................
PS....Dave the old girl is looking good........ plus I bet its easy riding for an old guy like you..........LOL
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the preacher
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 11:54 pm |
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20's??? you might save on deodorant but the hospital visit to try to get circulation back into your hands will probably blow the deodorant savings...
lol
RSDF
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Randy in Pensacola
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 11:23 pm |
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Dave wrote: they're only 12-inch, Feed them some Viagra and raise them to 20"......... You save a bundle on deodorant........LMAO
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empty
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 10:24 pm |
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the preacher wrote: re: ignition and kickstart...already know that story, I put a kicker on Grunt in 82, (he is an 81)...prime kick ignition off, get all ready, turn the key on, and the lousy electronic would be close enough to trigger and you got the famous "FOOP" noise as it fired blowing the charge you just primed in the cylinders. After about the 47th time that happened one day, when I finally got him started, we went to the store and bought a points ignition setup which has been in there since...
but AMF aint got nothin to do with it, other than if there hadnt been an AMF Harley time, we would all be riding something else.
RSDF
That's only assuming someone else wouldn't have bought them out.
My ole 80 Superglide I swapped a pickup for in 82, wouldn't start with a kick from day one. A few years later the ignition just died and I took it to a little shop, they called me a few hours later and said they had to order an ignition module for it but he had a points ignition I could use for a week until it got in. When I got to the shop, he kicked it to life in one kick, I told him I would take it just like that. He said, "Yup, kinda figured you'd say that".
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 04:32 pm |
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Thanks Jeff...
It is more comfortable. First bike I've ever had with apes. Even though they're only 12-inch, it made a big difference in comfort...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 03:25 pm |
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 10:24 am |
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weasle wrote:
.nice looking dave , what kinda 2-1s, and how did you plug the hole in the inner primary when you went to foreward controls ?? On the inner primary, I used a 1/2-inch (NPT) pipe plug. On the outer, that's, if I remember right, a Custom Chrome piece for an FLT. Randy gave me that awhile back. I tried everything I could to block off the hole with other things, even tried a silly-coned up wine cork!! It worked, looked like shit though...
Pipe? That's the same one I've had on it forever. Bought it at a swap-meet for $75.00, I don't know what it is or who made it. I had it break on me at the collector and made it into a 2-piece pipe. Originally it was all one piece. When it broke and I had it repaired, I scuffed up the chrome and painted it with semi-gloss ceramic paint. Easier to deal with. Gets ugly, I repaint it...LOL
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the preacher
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 09:21 am |
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re: ignition and kickstart...already know that story, I put a kicker on Grunt in 82, (he is an 81)...prime kick ignition off, get all ready, turn the key on, and the lousy electronic would be close enough to trigger and you got the famous "FOOP" noise as it fired blowing the charge you just primed in the cylinders. After about the 47th time that happened one day, when I finally got him started, we went to the store and bought a points ignition setup which has been in there since...
but AMF aint got nothin to do with it, other than if there hadnt been an AMF Harley time, we would all be riding something else.
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empty
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 02:11 am |
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the preacher wrote: EMPTY!!! whadaya mean, "somethin' you can dig dirt with?" You are NOT speaking that way about the Beloved Shovelhead are ya??? Wait, maybe you are...someone told me that them who ride them other things think anything with torque like a harley is SUPPOSED to have always refer to them as an excavator....ok, yer excused, you didnt know no better...
ROFL
RSDF
p.s.: got this from a movie...
Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor says..."make me One with everything"
I loves me the shovel, that wuz my first real Harley ....even if it was an AMF with a shite ignition that wouldn't let you kick start it. (I'll tell that story at a different time) There ain't nothin' better than the sound of a ka-titter-du-plump.
nyuk
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